[mon-uh-graf, -grahf] 
| 1. | a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist. |
| 2. | a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: scholarly monographs on medieval pigments. |
| 3. | an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism. |
| 4. | to write a monograph about. |
| mon·o·graph (mŏn'ə-grāf') n. A scholarly piece of writing of essay or book length on a specific, often limited subject. tr.v. mon·o·graphed, mon·o·graph·ing, mon·o·graphs To write a monograph on. mo·nog'ra·pher (mə-nŏg'rə-fər) n., mon'o·graph'ic adj., mon'o·graph'i·cal·ly adv. |
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